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SAP Pushes Back on EU Regs as FDA Tightens AI Oversight
October 23, 2024

European tech leaders warn against stifling AI innovation as SAP’s CEO pushes back on European Union regulations. At the same time, the FDA rolls out new healthcare AI oversight measures, and major tech companies struggle to meet European compliance standards. Testing reveals that even top...

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AI Becomes Uncle Sam’s Super Sleuth
October 22, 2024

The U.S. Treasury Department’s artificial intelligence system may be starting to do what armies of auditors have long struggled to achieve: curb financial crime more effectively. According to Treasury officials, a detection system, powered in part by AI, has saved taxpayers $3.8 billion in its...

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Anthropic Unveils AI Assistant That Can Navigate Computer Screens
October 22, 2024

Anthropic has launched a new artificial intelligence capability called “computer use” that enables its AI to interact with users’ computer screens. The feature, released in beta to developers on October 22, 2024, represents a significant advancement in AI assistance technology, moving beyond simple chatbot interactions...

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FDA Calls for Monitoring of AI as Tech Uses Widen in Healthcare
October 22, 2024

Hospitals are adopting AI assistants for patient care and Microsoft is rolling out medical imaging models, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calls for vigilant monitoring of these rapidly evolving tools. The push toward AI integration promises to ease healthcare worker burnout and...

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Honeywell, Google Join Forces to Build AI-Driven Industrial Operations
October 21, 2024

Honeywell and Google Cloud are partnering to transform the industrial sector by integrating advanced artificial intelligence (AI) agents into operations. The two companies announced their collaboration in a press release Monday (Oct. 21). The solutions, which are expected to begin rolling out in 2025, will...

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AI Swarms: The Future of Teamwork?
October 21, 2024

OpenAI’s new Swarm software unleashes teams of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to tackle complex tasks, potentially reshaping business automation across industries. It’s an open-source project that allows specialized AI helpers to hand off tasks to each other.  “The Swarm Framework can revolutionize supply chain management...

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AI Explained: Zero-Shot Learning Pushes AI Capabilities
October 21, 2024

A new breed of artificial intelligence is emerging, capable of tasks it was never explicitly taught. This technology, known as zero-shot learning, is pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities and raising questions about the future of machine intelligence. OpenAI’s GPT-4, for example, is a language model...

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Report: AI Search Company Perplexity Aims to Raise $500 Million
October 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) search company Perplexity is reportedly looking to raise about $500 million in a new funding round that would value it at $8 billion. The company has mentioned these figures in talks with investors, though the terms could change and the funding might...

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI Likely Smarter Than Humans This Decade
October 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to be smarter than most Nobel Prize winners before the end of this decade, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said. Speaking with Bloomberg about his essay on predictions about AI, Amodei said he thinks 2026 is the earliest, though not necessarily...